The phrase "desire to be recognized" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a longing to be noticed or appreciated by others. For example: "Her desire to be recognized drove her to work harder and longer than anyone else at the office."
It's hard for people to get behind that principle because my sense — having managed a lot of people — is that human beings are generally driven by a desire to be recognized every single day.
But parents say it is not a question of how good the chosen curriculums are, so much as a desire to be recognized as special and self-sufficient.
Designers are playing into shoppers' desire to be recognized, at least by those in the know, by downplaying big logos and incorporating more subtle signals of provenance.
The doctor's desire to be recognized is one of the seeds of his undoing, and the film doesn't leave his outsize ambition unexplored.
They may discover that this is how they feel at one moment, but at another level there may be a desire to be recognized and for their story, their struggle to stand for something meaningful for other people.
And this is C.K.'s motivating anxiety — the most conventional of anxieties, but no less powerful for being a cliché: his desire to be recognized, despite a thin C.V., as an artist.
In order to implement cross-stitch embroidery in an automatic way, the grid points in a raster like pattern are desired to be recognized at first.
This may, of course, in its extreme form of desiring to be recognized in all one's features by all persons be a mere utopia (along these lines Honneth 2002, 504).
In the presence of unspecific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) byproducts, the unique specificity of MB allows for the desired amplicon to be recognized.
He is simultaneously torn between the desire to shine, to be recognized by the gastronomic guides (the restaurant isn't far away from a Michelin star), and the necessity of responding to highly personal demands.
Alternatively, the stakeholders' statements about success indicate their appreciation for CPRAT's work and their desire for this work to be recognized by others.
